Given the enormity of the climate crisis, how would it look for an entire newsroom to respond at scale? France’s largest newspaper, Le Monde, might have one idea. Over the past year, Nabil Wakim, a climate and energy journalist at Le Monde, has helped oversee training initiatives aimed at bringing hundreds across the company up […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. In Dubai last month, the world’s governments reached a landmark agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels.” Now, the Biden administration faces a defining test of its commitment to that scientific imperative: a massive proposed expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in the US. […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. Some four billion people — roughly half the human population — will get the opportunity to vote in 2024, making this the biggest election year of all time. Bangladesh went first, last Sunday, in an election boycotted by the opposition party. It will be followed, […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. A clear majority of the American public — 56% — is now either “concerned” or outright “alarmed” about climate change. That’s according to a new study by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the gold standard in US climate polling. Yale’s findings are essential […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. The Climate Beat will be taking a break over the holidays and will return on January 4. Is the COP 28 agreement “a historic deal that will spell the eventual end of fossil fuels?” the Guardian’s Fiona Harvey asked. “Or will it be one more […]
A sunrise over mountains. Wild animals running free. A field of pristine solar panels. These are the images at the top of a slickly produced promotional video for the Saudi Green Initiative, which pledges bold vision and leadership in the fight against climate change. It seems every country and company is airing similar greenwashing videos, […]
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“The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said last Friday in Dubai. “Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout — with a clear timeframe aligned with 1.5 degrees C.” Guterres made those remarks two days before news broke that Sultan Al Jaber, the president of COP28 […]
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Inequality has always been at the heart of the climate crisis. Traditionally, inequality between countries has loomed largest: Rich countries have been responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions, but poor countries have suffered the most from the extreme heat, drought, storms, and rising seas driven by those emissions. New research highlighted last week in […]
This story was originally posted in The Nation. At this week’s COP28 climate meeting in Dubai, the focus will rightly be on the state of the planet. A record number of delegates—some 70,000 people, including heads of state—will be haggling over ways to curb carbon and methane emissions as the warmest year in earth’s history […]